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The Government must step in to save investment in clean-coal technology or
witness the end of mining in Britain for good, trades union leaders believe.

Their stark warning comes as the most developed large-scale commercial scheme
for revolutionary carbon capture and storage looks increasingly likely to be
shelved.

The flagship £1 billion CCS project at Longannet, a coal-powered generating
station in Scotland, is in the spotlight this week as the plant’s operator
ScottishPower and its owner, the Spanish utilities giant Iberdrola, consider
pulling the plans.

CCS is the nascent alternative technology that aims to extract carbon dioxide
created during the